Liu Zhenyuan from Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang province, recently finished the landscape artwork on a miniature version of the Grand View Garden, or Daguanyuan, a major setting in the classic Chinese novel The Dream of Red Mansions.
The 67-year-old retired photographer was drawn to the story after watching a TV adaptation four years ago, and had the idea of making a miniature landscape of the Grand View Garden.
Girl students practice football(soccer) at Renhuai Experimental Primary School in Renhuai, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Aug. 9, 2018. (Xinhua/Chen Yong)
A sports center has been built on the top of a shopping mall in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The center has an area of 17,000 square meters, four table tennis courts, three badminton courts, one standard basketball court and a runway. It is free to the public. [Photo/VCG]
Children acrobats train at a gym in Nanning, the capital of South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 9, 2018. Most of the children training with the acrobatics troupe led by Li Dewei are from the poverty-stricken Mashan County and they dream of one day improving the financial position of their families through their performances. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)
Twin sisters Wei Liufei (L) and Wei Meifei, 12, train at a gym in Nanning, the capital of South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 9, 2018. (Photo: China News Service/Chen Guanyan)
Photo taken on Aug. 10, 2018 shows passengers waiting as ferry service across Qiongzhou Strait fully suspended due to strong winds in Qionghai City, Hainan Province. Winds in the strait between Guangdong and the island province of Hainan are forecast to hit 90 km/h. (Photo: China News Service/Luo Yunfei)
A veterinarian cleans the teeth of a one-year-old tiger under anesthesia at a zoo in Kunming City, Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, Aug. 9, 2018. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Ranyang)
The production line of 0.022-millimeter-thick stainless steel at in a company in Taiyuan City, the capital of North China’s Shanxi Province, Aug. 8, 2018.
The company started mass production of the advanced 0.02-millimeter-thick, 600-millimeter-wide stainless steel, which is said to have wide applications in a range of fields, including aerospace, automotive, electronics and computers. Sources said due to difficult production techniques, China used to import the product from Japan and Germany. (Photo: China News Service/Wei Liang)
Wang Minhui(R), who is in charge of the "Kuaixueshiqing" studio, introduces a newly-made tea cup in Jingdezhen City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Aug. 9, 2018. Established in 2010, the "Kuaixueshiqing" studio consists of porcelain craftsmen with different skills, and is dedicated to the innovation of traditional porcelain craft. (Xinhua/Hu Chenhuan)
Firefighters conduct search and rescue operations on Friday after torrential rains hit Jingyuan county in Baiyin, Gansu province. As of Friday night, eight people had died and two were missing. [PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY]
Torrential rain hit the eastern part of Gansu province between Thursday night and the wee hours of Friday, killing eight people and leaving two missing, the provincial government said on Friday.
Torrential rains hit Jingyuan county in Baiyin, Gansu province on Friday. [PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY]
In Jingyuan county, two people were killed and one was missing when floodwaters pushed three cars off a road and into a riverbed that usually is dry at about 10 pm on Thursday.
In another part of the county some 80 kilometers away, a hotel was flooded, leaving six dead and one missing.
Local flood control authorities launched a level-four emergency response, the lowest of a four-tier disaster response mechanism.
Dancers perform a dance of Yi ethnic group at the Yunnan folk art exhibition at Yuyuan Garden in east China's Shanghai, Aug. 10, 2018. The exhibition kicked off here on Friday and shows folk dances, local artwares and scenery from Qujing City of Yunnan Province. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
Staff of a shop drain the floodwater in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Aug. 10, 2018. Hainan was hit by heavy rainfalls under the influence of a tropical depression on Friday, which triggered a red alert for rainstorms in seven cities and counties, including Haikou. (Xinhua/Wang Junfeng)
